Reflections and Impressionistic Portrait at the Conference "Frontiers Beyond the Standard Model," FTPI, Oct. 2012 · HackerPapers discussionshttps://hackerpaper.kaipfister.de/p/1211.0004/Collected HN comments and submissions linking this paper.enMon, 02 Nov 2026 11:16:22 GMTReflections and Impressionistic Portrait at the Conference "Frontiers Beyond the Standard Model," FTPI, Oct. 2012 — mentioned by photochemsynhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39756834urn:hackerpapers:mention:1211.0004:39756834Tue, 19 Mar 2024 15:33:44 GMT<p>This paper (2012) seems to sum it up, though it assumes familiarity with trends in physics up to the origins of the standard model c. 1970: Reflections and Impressionistic Portrait at the Conference Frontiers Beyond the Standard Model, M. Shifman, FTPI, Oct. 2012 https://arxiv.org/pdf/1211.0004v1.pdf It points to string theory having no predictive capabilities due to multiple-universe issues, we just happened to have evolved in a universe where the (randomly selected) parameters allow for element formation and life: &gt; &quot;Thus, there is no point in trying to understand the world order: the mass…</p><p><a href="https://hackerpaper.kaipfister.de/p/1211.0004/">Paper and discussion history</a>. A mention is not an endorsement.</p>physics.pop-ph